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Search Engine Optimization
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Search Engine Friendly URLs
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Most of today’s ecommerce sites use databases to dynamically
create pages. The advantage of using this technology is
overwhelmingly obvious. However, such URLs are always not
search engine friendly. Major search engines do a better job
with static pages than dynamic ones because URLs containing
stopper characters like ampersands (&), equals sign (=) and
session IDs stop search engine spiders from crawling a site.
How sad would it be if your ecommerce site is not even indexed
by search engines? Merchant One converts all dynamic URLs to
static, search engine friendly ones automatically so that our
clients’ sites can always be indexed by all major search
engines!
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Description Meta Tag
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The description meta tag is used to specify page descriptions.
It does not affect the ranking directly but most search engines
will display this information in their results if it’s present
and matches the page content plus the search query. How does an
attractive search engine result description sound? It just
gives you that bit of advantage in the competition of
attracting traffic from search engines. Merchant One offers
clients the full control over contents of the description meta
tag of every product/category page.
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Keyword Meta Tag
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The keyword meta tag is not used as much as back a few years
ago and is now ignored by major search engines like google,
yahoo, msn, etc. However, we still offer our clients control of
this content just incase some search engines are still using it
to determining the content of pages.
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Page Titles
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This is one of the most important tags for search engines.
Search engines normally display information from this tag in
their search results. It is the very first information people
would see about your site, just like a virtual business card.
So it is very essential to include some informative and
attracting text in this tag. Merchant One generates page titles
based on category/title and your store name automatically to
ensure your best search engine performance.
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Page Layout with CSS
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When search engines send their spiders to a website, they
search through the html code and look for certain elements.
Some tags are more heavily weighted than others in most search
engine algorithm, therefore it is very important to create
clean and readable codes which are easier for the spiders to
understand. If there are pieces of unnecessary codes
everywhere, spiders may struggle finding the useful
information. Merchant One is 100% CSS-template based. It helps
create clean codes and would result in better search engine
performance.
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Heading Tags
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The H1 tag is another heavily weighted tag in most search
engines algorithms today. For example, The Google ranking
algorithm dictates that if you're using a H1 tag, then the text
in between this tag must be more important than the content on
the rest of the page. Again, Merchant One generates heading
tags for every single page automatically for our customers.
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Automated Site Map Generation
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It is difficult for search engine spiders to follow all the
links using JavaScripts on a site. A site map with plain text
links to all pages help search engine spiders to crawl all
contents of a site more easily and quickly. Merchant One
provides automated site map generation to ensure new contents
of sites are always indexed by search engines, fast.